Railway-rail.



W. L. GAVEN.

RAILWAY RAIL.

APPLICATION 21mm AUG. 8, 1910.

Patented May 16, 1911.

9 2 1 2" l fl UNITED STATES PAEENT' OFFICE,

WALTER I1. CAVEN, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FOURTH T0 WALTER MAGLEOD, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

' RAILWAY-RAIL.

Be it known that I, WAL'rnnL. ,QAvEN, a citizen of the United States of America, and

; resident of Cincinnati, county of Hamilton,

by the means described in the specification, and illustrated in the accompanying draw-.

ings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a rail- Way track equipped with a rail embodylng my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a section of track, and of a rail embodying my invention, upon an enlarged scale, onehalf only of the rail joint being shown. F ig. 3 ,is a. sectional-view taken-upon line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken upon line 4-4= 0f- Fig. 2.

Referring to the parts -The tread,'A, and the web, B, of the rail are of ordinary construction. At points which register with the usual ties, D, the portion, e, of the base, is of the usual flat construction. Intermediate the rails, the two flanges, e, e, of the base, are bent downward in a manner such that at points midway between the ties, the flanges lie in substantially vertical planes, as illustrated in Fig. 3. Adjacent to the ties, the bends,'e e, of the flanges are in planes inclined to the vertical, so that the base portion is bent gradually from its horizontal position over the ties, to, a substantially vertical position, at points intermediate the ties. At the ends of the rails, the flangesof the base terminate in portions which stand in vertical planes.

In conjunction with my rails, I employ a rail-joint, which has a central body portion, which consists of plates, F, F, which contact with the'downturned flanges of the base and extend upwardly in parallelism with the web of the rail, and have their upper edges in contact with the underside of the tread Upon each .side of the central body portion, the plate has arms, 7', f, which stand adjacent to the webs of the rail over the ties. The plates, F, F, are joined at the center by plate F Plates, F, F, the central portion 13 and the arms, f, f, are formed integral. Plates, F, F, and the rail move in relation to the ties.

Specification of Letters Patent. Pat t d M y; 16,1911, Application filed August a, 1910. Seria1No.576,0 61. i

downturned flanges i'agil are l perforated to pass bolts, G, G, and the plates, F, I

F, and the arms, f, f, have perforations registering with perforationsintheiwebs of the rails, to receive bolts, G, G.

In use :The rails having been formed with the flat portions of the base of the rails spaced at distances apart equal -to the distances between the ties, the rails are placed upon the ties, with the downturned flanges occurring between the ties, and with the rails meeting each other at points between the ties. A rail-jointis secured in place, by sliding it over the end of a rail which has been secured in place, and then by sliding the next rail which is to be installed, into the end of the rail-joint, and bringing it into contact with the end of the rail just fixed in place. WVhen a train passes over the rails, it subjects-them to strains which tend to deflect them. These strains are greatest at points intermediate the ties. The downturned flanges being in vertical planes at the points intermediate the ties, are in a position in which they offer the maximum resistance to bending strains. The tractive force of a train moving over a rail, tends to make the The down turned flanges of therail base resist this tendency of the rail to move in relationto its ties.

What I'claim is 1. A'railway rail comprising a tread, a web and a base distorted at intervals along its length for stiflening the rail.

2. A railway rail comprising a tread, a Web and bottom flanges distorted at intervalls along their length for stiffening the m1 3. A railway rail having its base bent out 0? a'horizontal plane at pointsbetwcen the ties, and having horizontal portions in the base adapted to rest upon the tics.

4. A railway rail having its base downturned at points between the ties, and having flat portions adapted to rest upon the ties.

5. The combination of railway rails hav ing their bases downturned at their ends, rail-joints bent around the abutting downturned bases of the rails, and means for securing, the rails and rail-joints together.-

(3. The combination of railway rails have ing the bases downturned at the end of the" rails, rail-joints having a central portion bases and bent upward on each side of the Y 7. A railway rail comprising a. tread, a- -web and bottom flanges located on each side 10 rails; and having longitndinally extending of said Web and bent downwardly between arms to contact with the webs'of the rails, the'ties for the purpose of stifiening the rail. said rail-joints and the flanges and webs of WALTER L. CAVEN.

passing'beneath the downturned ends of the.

, the rails being perfonated, and bolts passing Witnesses: through the perforations to secure the rails \VALTER F. MURRAY,

and rail-joints together. 4 l V. THORNTON Boemz'r.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

